Legislature should establish uniform fees for Right-to-Know requests
As the 69th Montana Legislature gears up to meet this winter, lawmakers are spending time thinking about policies they believe will make the state better. The Montana Transparency Project believes one straightforward option is a law standardizing fees for Right-to-Know requests.
While we’ve been assisting Montanans with information requests this year, we’ve heard time and again from folks confused and concerned about how much and when they’ll have to pay for their public information request.
Frustratingly, many of these Montanans have abandoned their requests when presented with a bill for information they haven’t even seen yet. Despite our best efforts, it’s difficult to provide advice on lowering costs or to opine on whether a fee is reasonable when there is so much variance in the way Montana agencies charge citizens seeking public information.
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